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Tapestries

Tapestries

    AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    Christ's charge to Peter

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print? | 15.9 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853056

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990317). The drawing is a copy from Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'Christ's Charge to Peter' (see RCIN 912945). Ruland (1876) suggested that the drawing is the work of Biagio Pupini.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

      After a work previously attributed to Biagio Pupini (active 1511-after 1575) (artist)

    • 15.9 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Life of Christ
              • Public Life of Christ
                • Christ's Charge to Peter (Donation of the Keys)
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Industries, Crafts and Trades
          • Ironmongery
            • Keys
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.320, no.827 (P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London)

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